books.google.comhttp://books.google.com/books/about/Abstract_of_North_Carolina_Wills_Compile.html?id=f6I4AAAAIAAJ&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareAbstract of North Carolina Wills Compiled from Original and Recorded Wills in the Office of the Secretary of State

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Page vi - September next inclusive, and that the natural day next immediately following the said second day of September shall be called, reckoned and accounted to be, the fourteenth day of September...

Page 233 - Mediation of my most compassionate Redeemer, Jesus Christ, who gave himself to be an Atonement for my Sins and is able to save to the uttermost all that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make Intercession for them, and who I trust will not reject me, a returning penitent Sinner, when I come to him for Mercy, in this Hope and...

Page 11 - I pray my executors to observe this method: Let them be taught to read and write and be introduced into the practical part of Arithmetick, not too hastily hurrying them to Latin or Grammar; but after they are pretty well versed in these, let them be taught Latin...

Page iv - Province, by and with the advice and consent of the rest of the Members of the General Assembly now met at Charles-Town for the South and West part of this Province, and by the Authority of the same.

Page vi - September in the said year one thousand seven hundred and fifty-two inclusive ; and that the natural day next immediately following the said second day of September, shall be called, reckoned and accounted to be the fourteenth day of September, omitting for that time only the eleven intermediate nominal days of the common calendar...

Page 11 - Arithmetick, not too hastily hurrying them to Latin or Grammar; but after they are pretty well versed in these, let them be taught Latin and Greek, I propose this may be done in Virginia; after which let them learn French; perhaps some Frenchman at Santee will undertake this. When they are arrived to years of discretion let them study the Mathematicks.